Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Middle Eastern

In this volume, Elisabeth Fraser shows that artists and the works they created in the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were informed by mutual dependence and reciprocity between European nations and the Ottoman Empire. Her rich exploration of this vibrant cross-cultural exchange challenges the dominant interpretation of European relations with the East during the period, revealing a shared world of fluid and long-sustained interactions.

Voyagers to and from the Ottoman Empire documented their journeys in prints, paintings, and lavishly...

This publication considers the work of 50 key artists, ranging from important pioneers of the calligraphic movement to those who use the written word in their work today. The book begins with a contribution from Venetia Porter, curator of Islamic...

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place 500-1500 focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spirit of place. Since early Christianity, wood, earth, water and stone were taken from loca sancta to signify them elsewhere. Academic discourse has indiscriminately grouped material tokens from holy places and their containers with architectural and topographical emulations, two-dimensional images and bodily relics. However, unlike textual or visual representations, natural materials do not describe or interpret the Holy Land; they...

The career of Iraqi artist Mahmoud Obaidi (born 1966) has been marked by conflict and exile. Fragments assembles his politically charged art alongside a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

This visually striking volume illustrates over sixty of the most venerated mosques from historic monuments such as the Great Mosque of Cordoba and Istanbul's Suleymaniye Mosque to today's most dynamic new designs exemplified by the Sancaklar Mosque. Essays by prominent architecture and design authorities include Professor Sussan Babaie, Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London;...

Egyptian artist Wael Shawky (born 1971) creates videos, drawings and performance art that explore the construction of history; his films reprise well-known (and sometimes disputed) tales. This catalog gathers his series Cabaret Crusades and Al Araba Al Madfuna.

Der Band fokussiert asthetische Strategien und Formen der Reprasentation in der christlichen und islamischen Sepulkralkunst der Vormoderne aus einer interkulturellen Perspektive. Ausgehend von dem Verstandnis des Grabmals als Schnittstelle eschatologischer, politischer und kunstlerischer Diskurse analysieren die Beitrage memoriale Raumkonfigurationen. Das thematische Spektrum reicht von dem komplexen Wechselverhaltnis zwischen Architektur und Grabmaltopographie uber Fragen nach der funeralen Konstitution von Macht und Identitat bis hin zu Praktiken ritueller Vergegenwartigung im Kontext...